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Scheduling update
🕑 Added 2024-04-04 16:48:51 +0000 UTC
Hey besties buddies!
It's Plante with an update on the publish time for next week's Resties. That episode will be published as soon as we have it ready -- most likely before the end of the day on Thursday, April 11.
Unfortunately, I got stuck in Newark Airport last night during thunderstorms. I'm back at the airport and hope to catch a late afternoon flight. This throws a few wrenches into the recording time Frush and I had planned for this evening.
I'm sorry the episode won't be ready for Tuesday. Thank you for your patience. As a token of gratitude, here is me at midnight moments after my flight got canceled after 6 hours of delays!
Comments
EtherEli
You mean you don’t return shopping carts for quarters to spend at Burger King?
Jordan
I work with cancer patients, so I mask as do many of my colleagues, especially somewhere like an airport. Also, I’m already dealing with a couple different chronic illnesses, and don’t want to add long Covid to the list. Also, I’m cold a lot and the mask keeps me warmer. Also, I’m nonbinary and the mask reduces my dysphoria. Also, having a cold greatly intensifies one of my weird medical conditions. So many reasons for me to keep a mask on, and really no compelling reason for me not to :)
Somm Bombadil
This joke really brightened my night 😂
Noah
Ughhhh flight cancellations are the absolute worst. Take your time! (Sidenote: thank you for masking! We love a public health conscious king 🩵)
Chris
Shockingly, no movies. I really wanted to bring some fun, weird stuff for the show this week so I focused on some Resties surprises. Extremely eager to share one in particular.
Chris
A+ comment
Jordan
Ooof! Sleep is priority #1 now!!! Podcasts later. :)
Dan K
Been there (both the Newark airport part and the waiting 6 hours only to have the flight canceled part)
Geoff N
Take your time, dude! Tell us though: what movies did you watch for your flights/stuck in the airport?
thrillhou
I still mask. Like Plante, my wife is immunocompromised. But even if she wasn't, I would still wear one. A big part of it for me is the risk of long covid. People talk about covid like just because it's unlikely to be fatal that there aren't any lasting consequences. That covid is no different than the cold or the flu: you get sick, and either there's the tiny chance you die, or you get better. But long covid can seriously mess you up, and it doesn't really matter how young or healthy you are. My younger brother got covid and ended up with brain damage. I was just reading an interview with the singer from The Magnetic Fields, who was one of the first people in the country to get covid. He said four years later he's unable to write anything that's longer than an index card. And then we treat covid like it's just a respiratory disease, but it's not. It spreads like a respiratory disease, but it's also a vascular disease that can hit any system in the body. So even if you don't end up with long covid, you still now have a much higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, etc. I wear a seatbelt when I drive my car, I wear a helmet when I ride a bike, so to me it's a no-brainer to continue wearing a mask, especially since I'm much more worried about the consequences of covid than an accident, and much more likely to catch covid than get into a wreck. And that's just the selfish stuff. There's also the element of the guilt I'd feel if I had covid and found out I'd infected other people, and also the desire to make spaces more accessible for immunocompromised people.
Mk
Loving the mask! 😷 💕
Chrysanthemum
No worries at all, take care of yourself!!
Patrick
Gus Polinski, the Polka King of the Midwest??
Matthew Williamson
Unacceptable. You could have easily found a friendly midwest polka band who would have let you ride in their rented van!
Max!
this is an outfit the condiment king would wear on his day off
ROLLINKUNZ!
Big same! Well done :)
ROLLINKUNZ!
No worries on the delay. Glad you're stayin' safe! :D
Kurt Vonnebutt
All good. Get home safe Plante!
thrillhou
Also extremely happy to see you still masking!
Kevin Proff
Those are the eyes of someone experiencing tired, silent rage
TaterBe
Safe travels!
Chris
A fair question! My wife is extremely immunocompromised. She can get very, very sick (like hospital or worse) even from a flu. My guess is that when you see folks wearing masks these days, it's rarely a statement and more of a "I can't afford to get sick or get someone I love sick." At least that's my personal experience.
Chris
Big fan of getting as far as possible from my gate/the delayed flight. If I'm lucky, I can find a quiet pace and set up a little temporary chill-out spot.
Uncle Dr PhilOsophy
😂😂
Uncle Dr PhilOsophy
If I was stuck at an airport right now, for better or worse would probably be playing Terraria . . . friends got me back into it; should be playing Balatro instead; waiting for mobile release
Ian Hickey
It's okay the Resties episode is going to be awesomesauce I'm sure
Uncle Dr PhilOsophy
I understand this probably isn't the time and place for this conversation, but I can't help myself so out of sheer curiosity, are there still ppl masking up ? Like it's more of a cultural thing no ? And I say that as a Georgian living in the deep south (albeit more left-winged Atlanta area) where hardly no one wears a mask, particularly now-a days; but even during the depths of the pandemic, I know it was considerably less common than northern states. For instance, I lived in Maryland/DC between 2019-2022, and while still south, considering the proximity and cultural influence from northern USA, a majority of the denizens wore masks including myself (and then I'd come down South to visit family and be like "what the heck, where are y'all's masks"). Admittedly, and this is just personally, I stopped wearing a mask probably sometime around or shortly after the vaccine became a thing and really haven't looked back. I only wear a mask now when I'm sick. And with all of that being said, I observe Plante wearing a mask in an airport (indoors, lots of ppl, understandably), and I also observe the other ppl in the picture seemingly not wearing masks (in NJ/ Northern state) which in full honesty would be me too without giving it a second thought, and that's today in the year of our lord and savior 2024 (versus a year like 2020/2021) so . . . 🤷♂️ just curious !
Elyse
Safe travels!
David Klein
Y’all have been killing it with the amount of sweet sweet besties content, I personally am not-at-all bummed about a late/missed ep. here or there. Wishing your wrists strength holding your steam deck on the plane 🎮
Ben Shirk
Sorry to hear that you're stuck in New Jersey...
jahr
Agree with Brandon Gupton. Use as inspiration for content and i vote Balatro for best airport game.
jahr
This!!!
Brandon Gupton
Sounds like content for a future episode: What is the best game to play when stuck at an airport and why is it Balatro?
bjorktribe
I fell asleep after a 6 hour delay in JFK near the duty free shops. I woke up smelling like every cologne on earth.
Rachel Goosen
Thanks for wearing a mask!
Majima Cookie
completely unacceptable. And by that I mean cool, all good 👍
Taylor Kelty
How do you endure The Terminal® living, aside from games? Asking as someone who's spent many a night camping by the outlet.
JD Silva
Your Russ impression from the last bracket episode will fuel me for years to come. No worries.
zillybanz
No worries broski🫶
Travis
New tattoo incoming to join New York Giraffe.... Newark Plante.
Monty
At least you're not stuck in LaGuardia
Joe Moore
Nice headphones! MX5's are the goat
Blazingsoul
Just happy you’re okay! I can wait two extra days to enjoy some Resties.
It’sahMeBronnyG
Safe travels!
Annie the Feywild therapist
That rain was INTENSE glad you made it through!
Ultimate Danny 5000
Hope you get back safely!
Pigeon
hope you’re okay thanks for the update!!
